Graham Nash: Return of the Manchester Mind Wrestler
Andrew Tyler, NME, 20 April 1974
CONSIDERING the wastage rate in the higher echelons of rock 'n' roll, it's not difficult to accept as the norm a situation in which an averagely healthy musician can be suddenly and eerily transformed into a rakish, semi-demised being usually with the help of a little white powder and the banzai trek from, one town to the next.
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